A change in schedule?

 I guess I lost a day there, blogging-wise anyway. Yesterday I'd stayed up all night and went to the bank in the morning, ran other errands, visited Tom for a bit, etc., and finally went to bed, rather exhausted, at around 6 in the early evening. 

I woke up at about 4AM, so that was 10 hours of sleep. I'd been able to keep it down to a relatively comfortable 80 degrees in here so sleeping was fine. 

I finally got going around 10:30 and put stuff in the little free pantry by the Peace And Justice Center downtown, namely, another huge can of corned beef hash and some "kasha" buckwheat, as I'd gotten out one of my boxes of "prepper stores" and kept pretty much all of it to use myself but I'm never going to get around to cooking that stuff. 

I went to Dai Thanh and got some ginger but they didn't have "Chinese donuts" so I went over to Academic Coffee and got a croissant, which ended up costing me $5. It was $4 and I tipped $1, and it's cashless so I had to use my card and this little machine. Blah. 

I didn't feel like it but I went over to Walmart and got stuff, and as I was checking out noticed a couple cashing in a lot of change at the Coinstar. I looked interested, and although there was a language barrier I managed to tell them I'm a coin collector and if they get any odd coins that are refused, I'll buy some of them. In the end I paid $2 that the guy seemed happy to get, for two 1964 silver quarters, a 1964 silver dime, a 1943 steel penny, a Mexican 50c piece, and a very weathered Chucky Cheese token. They'd run something close to $300 or $400 through the machine, which had also spat out a bunch of Mexican coins but I didn't want those. 

So in the end it wasn't a bad trip to Walmart, even though they didn't have the 6-bottle packs of diet 7-Up at all, and I had to settle for the last 12-pack of cans that had one end opened for some reason so it had to be handled carefully. 

I swung by the Amazon place for some bubble mailers, then stopped in at Nijiya. One of the guys working there came out and started out with "You're a regular customer..." so I was waiting for him to tell me I can't park my bike in front any more or something, but it turned out he simply advised me to "do other errands first" because he had a huge line going in there. So I took off. 

Most of the ride back, I realized I hadn't dropped off my September pledge to the temple. So I came back here to the shop, dropped things off, and started out again. It had been windy and gusty and now the wind was even stronger. In fact about the time I'd remembered about the pledge money, I was being sprinkled on a bit with large drops. It was slow going against the wind, which seemed to be going opposite the usual direction. 

I dropped off my envelope, then looked at the new chalk sidewalk painting being done. The gal doing it goes by the artist name of Momo Cha. "Peach Tea," I said to her. She said, "Yes!" and we talked a bit. I warned her about possible rain tomorrow and higher winds, and it was a pleasant little talk. 

I went back over to Nijiya and got snack things and then over to TAK Market for near-beer. Now I can stay in all day tomorrow if I like. I didn't get sprinkled on again coming home this 2nd time, but on the radio they've been talking about potential rain tomorrow and now I can stay in and listen to it pitter-patter.